We’ve had unexpecting interruptions in our Feevy updaters last weeks, and the error (which is still strange) came from inside God, it was unable to decide if a process was still running.

If you’ve the same kind of problem, with your god logging showing « kill: 1: No such process« , then change the exists? method in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/god-0.5.0/lib/god/system/process.rb file, gem path might not be the same on your system.

Freeduino.org is currently the best place to fetch articles and information about Arduino project. Tonight, I’ve made a simple script to move this Creative Commons index on Del.icio.us, hoping it would become a better place to fetch last Arduino information!

The original project for tonight was to build a 3D LED cube, and the not-so-clever idea was to compact it the size of a normal dice.

Big mistake: first it was hell to solder all the tiny intersection of led cathods, then there is no way to pile up the array of leds if you don’t let space between them… maybe there’s a solution to that, and I’ve not find it yet.

Anyway, it was ready to connect to Arduino board, and to try to program this new led-matrix. Easy and fun, only problem is debugging messages while verifying source code on Arduino software that doesn’t help much, I’ll have to learn more about its syntax limitations.

Here is the result, 5 days before returning to Toulouse to visit Claire: